Experience Woodland
The Woodland Cultural Centre offers a variety of tours, education programs, and workshops that offer interested visitors the opportunity to learn about an assortment of topics covering the past, present, and future of Southern Ontario’s First Nations peoples.
Discover Indigenous history, culture, art, food, current issues or material culture through one of our tours, education programs, or workshops, all of which are created to fit the needs of the visitor where you decide the time, activities and the length of your visit.
Experience the Woodland Cultural Centre in three ways:
Tours
Immersive self-guided and guided virtual tour of the museum and virtual tour of the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School. Prearranged tours are offered to groups ranging from 10 to 60 guests.
Education Programming
Our K-12 programs cover a variety of Hodinohshoni topics ranging from culture, history, art, food, and past/current issues that follow the Ontario Curriculum guidelines. Each program offers teachers/educators before and after resources for their classrooms.
Workshops/Other Programming
Our workshops and other programming are geared towards corporate, college/universities, and life-long learners who are looking to educate themselves on a variety of Indigenous topics, including Truth and Reconciliation, Stereotypes and Racism, and Six Nations Land Claims.
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Virtual Tour of the Former Mohawk Institute Residential School (Public)
The virtual tour will guide you through the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, giving the history of the institution over its 140-year history. Viewers will get to see different rooms inside the school, from the girls’ and boys’ dormitories, the cafeteria, laundry room, and other rooms throughout the building as well as hear interviews from five survivors.
Virtual Tour of the Former Mohawk Institute Residential School (Group)
The virtual tour will guide you through the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, giving the history of the institution over its 140-year history. Viewers will get to see different rooms inside the school, from the girls’ and boys’ dormitories, the cafeteria, laundry room, and other rooms throughout the building as well as hear interviews from five survivors.
Truth and Reconciliation Presentation
This comprehensive presentation covers topics from the Imperial Context, Canada’s Indigenous Policy, The Indian Residential Settlement Agreement, to United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The presentation allows for an in-depth understanding of TRC’s final report, its 10 Principles and 94 Calls to Action.
Traditional Games
One of our most popular workshops where participants learn about some of the games that were played by the Hodinohsho:ni people long ago, and are still played today. The games participants will learn about include bone and toggle, scattering sticks, bone dice, double ball (dingball), long ball, lacrosse, Snowsnake, and snowshoeing.
Our Sustenance
Our Sustenance introduces participants to three important crops – corns, beans, and squash – that were planted yearly to sustain the Hodinohsho:ni. Participants will learn about traditional farming practices, nutrition, nixtamalization, and some traditional dishes the Hodinohsho:ni prepared using corn, beans, and squash.
Museum – Self Guided
The self-guided tour guests will utilize our self-guided tour booklet to walk through the museum at their own pace and view the displays that showcase the history of the Woodland people, specifically the Six Nations (Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Seneca, and Tuscarora) from roughly 600 years ago up to present day.
